Recipe - Patterned Snowflake Cookies

Date: 01-12-2015
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Snowflake

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, (softened)
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Blue Icing
  • White Icing

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Step 1

Preheat oven to 180ºC.

Step 2

In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Do not chill dough. Divide dough into 2 balls.

Step 3

On floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 30cm. diameter x 3mm thick. Dip Snowflake cookie cutter in flour before each use. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 8-11 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool Cookies.

Step 2

Decorate light center cookies. Divide blue icing into four portions. Tint four shades of blue from light to dark. Reserve some full-strength icing in darkest shade. Thin remaining icings, separately, according to package directions. Use tip 3, a pastry bag and full-strength dark blue icing to outline cookies. Use tip 3, a pastry bag, and thinned icing in darkest shade to pipe an outline next to first outline. Repeat with thinned icing in second darkest shade, second lightest shade and lightest shade of icing. Immediately use a toothpick to drag icing from snowflake arms toward center of cookie. Let cookies dry overnight. Reserve remaining icing.

Step 3

Decorate dark center cookies. You will outline cookies as for light center cookies, but you will add a second group of outlines from darkest to lightest to create the darker center design. After completing the lightest outline in the first group, start the second group with darkest thinned icing next to the lightest outline. When both groups are complete, immediately use toothpick to drag icing from snowflake arms toward center of cookie. Let cookies dry overnight.
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